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Equality between men and women is still a long way off, despite the increased focus on the gender pay gap, according to a new report.

The World Economic Forum (WEF), best known for its annual event in the Swiss resort of Davos, said the world had closed 68pc of its gender gap in 2018, a mere 0.1pc improvement on last year.

This means, at the current rate of progress, it will take 108 years for the global gender gap to close entirely.

A stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in access to healthcare and education, offset improvements in global wage equality, the WEF said.